Galium aparine, Dronten © Arnold Grosscurt

Galium aparine, Cadzand

Galium aparine, Castricum. The leaf is folded upwards along the midrib, the upperside is densely covered with hairs, between which the mites live. One half of the leaf has been removed here.

details

gall mites have only two visible pairs of feet

young and adult mite

host plants

Rubiaceae, narrowly oligophagous

Cruciata glabra, laevipes; Galium aparine, boreale, broterianum, debile, humifusum, intermedium, kitabelianum, mollugo, obliquum, palustre, parisiense, pumilum, rivale, rubrum, saxatile, sylvaticum, tricornutum, uliginosum, verum.

parasite

Eriophyes galii

note

Redfern & Shirley (2011a) have the impression that all British material attributed to C. gallii in fact belongs to C. rouhollahi, a species described in 1999 that causes galling identical to those of galii.

references

Béguinot (2001a, 2002h, 2003a, 2006a,c, 2007b, 2012a), Bellmann (2012a), Blanes-Dalmau, Caballero-López & Pujade-Villar (2017a), Boczek & Petanović (1996a), Bohinc & Trdan (2013a), Buhr (1964b), Chinery (2011a), Coulianos & Holmåsen (1991a), Craemer, Sobhian, McClay & Amrine-jr (1999a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Deckert & Deckert (2016a), Docters van Leeuwen (1936a), Farkas (1865a), Flügel (2016a), Hellrigl (2003a), Houard (1909a), Jočić & Petanović (2012a), Koops (2013a), Lambinon, Carbonnelle & Claerebout (2015a), Lambinon, Schneider & Feitz (2001a), Lehmann & Flügel (2012a), Lehmann & Hannnover (2016a), O’Connor & Wistow (1999a), Ostojá-Starzewski (2009a), Petanović (1998a), Petanović & Stanković (1999a), Redfern &am Shirley (2011a), Ripka (2007a), Skoracka, Lewandowski & Boczek (2005a), Stănescu (2009a), Tavares (1905a), Weidner (1954a).